PHILADELPHIA — They move on from here to the West Coast, in search of peace or karma or whatever else is missing, hoping against hope they can get it found and corrected.

Along the way, the Phillies have to leave behind the idea of Roy Halladay as an every-five-day pitcher, and leave him behind, too.

Halladay gave up nine earned runs over 2 1/3 innings to the frightful Miami Marlins Sunday, leaving the Phillies to shuffle away amid a 14-2 spirit killing at Citizens Bank Park that could serve as a precursor to a month of disaster calls.

The first Mayday has already been sounded; while the Phillies are heading to San Francisco, Halladay will leave later for Los Angeles, where he’s to be examined by orthopedic surgeon and Angels team doctor Lewis Yocum for a rather familiar problem.

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“Right shoulder discomfort,” Halladay said. “I’m going to have it looked at here in the next few days.”

According to general manager Ruben Amaro Jr., however, team doctors have already determined Halladay’s soreness “is a little different” than the throwing shoulder problems that forced him to miss a big chunk of the 2012 season. That’s as far as Amaro’s optimism was going to extend.

“We’re likely going to have to put him on the DL,” Amaro said of Halladay. “Clearly he’s not been very healthy. It was pretty apparent with his performance today, unfortunately. We’ll have to figure out what we’re doing with the roster.”

Halladay said he awoke on the morning of April 25 feeling pain in his shoulder, but took it for “normal soreness” after pitching the night before against the Pittsburgh Pirates. When it didn’t easily go away, he took it for something else. He won’t know exactly what it is until after a battery of tests later in the week in Los Angeles.

“It’s not something I’ve had before,” Halladay said. “It’s something new this year. I was good all spring, felt good all year. I just got up after that start against Pittsburgh and had soreness in there and just wasn’t able to get rid of it.”

For the Phillies, this unpleasant surprise about their former staff ace comes at a time when they can’t seem to shake an offensive flu. That’s one earned run and five hits over the last two games against the allegedly historically and hysterically bad Marlins.

Having seen his team collectively struggle at the plate like this before — oh, maybe a time or two hundred over the last couple of seasons — Manuel knows seeing the other guys score a bunch of times early doesn’t exactly help soothe the common slump symptoms.

“It’s kind of a climb for them,” he said, “but at the same time I’ve seen us do it before. I’ve seen us come back from four, five or six runs down.”

The explanation last Tuesday in Cleveland was that the Indians were hot and couldn’t help but belt the ball around no matter who was on the mound. So Halladay allowing eight earned runs in 3 2/3 innings that night was emphatically shrugged away.

Little did anyone else know that he’d been dealing with the shoulder pain for much of the prior week. It didn’t become apparent something was awfully amiss until that 38-pitch top of the first inning Sunday.

“Listen, he’s a competitor,” Amaro said of Halladay. “If he feels he can pitch, he’s going to pitch. We’ll let him pitch. But he clearly wasn’t able to pitch to his accustomed level.”

The first clue was a four-pitch walk to Juan Pierre. One out later, Placido Polanco walked, then Justin Ruggiano was hit by a Halladay pitch. He missed on his next two pitches before purposely grooving a fast ball that Marcell Ozuna drilled off the top of the left field fence for a two-run double.

That done, Greg Dobbs walked to reload the bases, but Halladay induced .171-hitting catcher Miguel Olivo to pop out. Halladay and the Phils were on the verge of getting out of the inning against .169 hitting shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria until he scalded a drive to right that would go as a bases-clearing triple.

For his next act, Dr. Roy struck out the next three batters, and got Polanco to fly out to end the second. Alas, the ailing Mr. Halladay came out for the top of the third.

He hit Ruggiano with a pitch for the second time in the game. He walked Ozuna and gave up a single to Dobbs to load the bases with no outs. The clueless Olivo would quickly go down hacking, leaving it up to Hechavarria to do the unloading again.

This time he did it with a grand slam to right.

Halladay was through, with a line of 9 ER, 4H, 4BB, 1HR and 2HBP trailing behind.

The Phillies’ bullpen never really got started. Pierre would end up with three hits on the day. Ozuna would have four, along with three RBIs. Oh, and that Hechavarria guy had two hits and seven RBIs ... boosting his batting average to .190.

Until knowing details of his latest shoulder issue, however, Halladay’s inconsistency is enough of a talking point. Over his first two outings of the season against the Braves and Mets, he was 0-2 with a 14.73 ERA.

Over his next three outings against the Marlins, Cardinals and Pirates, he went 2-0 with a 1.71 ERA.

In his last two outings, he’s 0-2 with a 25.5 ERA. Both games ended in 14-2 losses.

Add it up and it spells an intriguing invite to the disabled list. Unknown territory beyond.

“They aren’t completely conclusive as to what it is,” Halladay said of medical consultants he’d confided his pain to. “There are a couple of different options. ... We’ll get some more information and address it then. But as far as going forward, I don’t have much for you.”